Poetry | Haiku | Life
A Reflection on the Circle of Life
cycle of logic
pulses out a requiem
still found in nature.
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id spotless.</p><p id="036a">My mum liked her home to be comfortable. She believed in clean, but ‘lived in.’ She wasn’t ever 100% tidy, she was <i>comfortably tidy. </i>Some days I would come home from school and every room in the house would be a little messy. However, if my mum had spent all day tidying up, she’d never have had a life.</p><p id="8f57">When my own children were young, my home was never ‘spotless’, and some professionals often complained that<b> I wasn’t tidy or clean enough.</b></p><p id="6e46">Bringing up six children was really hard, I did not have time to clean and tidy all day! Besides,</p><p id="3d1b" type="7">being too tidy and stressing yourself out over it in front of children teaches them that being messy is wrong!</p><p id="626e">If children grow up believing that cleaning is the only way to live, then they will grow up anxious about every little mess they make.</p><p id="a244" type="7">Parents should feel free to spend more time with their children because children need them more than housework needs them.</p><p id="04c5">My children are grown up today, but I still don’t do 100% tidy. I have laundry in my lounge to put away, and baskets of dirty clothes to wash, and everything is out of place,</p><p id="8f70"><b>But, I will clean it up in my own time.</b></p><p id="935a">We<i> </i>need to drop the concept of spotless because it causes people more stress than it is worth. Of course, we do need to clean and tidy our homes every now and then, in order to create a healthy home.</p><p id="9681">However, being too clean and tidy can be unhealthy; and in today’s world, do you really want to spend the rest of your life absorbed in chores?</p><p id="ac8b"><b>Life is for living, so please go away if you want spotless. You won’t get it at my house!</b></p><p id="a3e5">You might like to re
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